Donald Trump Jr seems to have forgotten one of the cardinal rules of the apostrophe: it comes after the “s” when the possessive noun is plural.
The next book by the son of the US president, Liberal Privilege, is subtitled “Joe Biden and the Democratic Defense of the Indefensible.” Unless Trump Jr refers to a single Democrat, then the apostrophe must shift one place to the right for the title to be grammatically correct.
The book will be out in August. Trump Jr said on Twitter that he had been working on it “for the past few months in quarantine,” and that he was “impressed that Biden had gotten away with it.”
“Libs,” he added, “are already activated” by the book.
But Trump Jr was careful to share only a small part of the book’s cover on Twitter, after Axios broke the news about the title, and mocked him for the grammar mistake. His previous book, Triggered, was a New York Times No. 1 bestseller, but sales were reported to be driven by mass orders from the Republican National Committee.
According to Axios, Trump Jr is self-publishing the new book as “a cross shot” for traditional publishers, and “teamed up” with Trump Victory Finance Committee chief of staff Sergio Gor.
His girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News television personality who is a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, will read the audiobook and also helped him work on it. Guilfoyle tested positive for the coronavirus last week.
“This is how we came up with the idea that she would do the audiobook,” Trump Jr told Axios. “We took turns reading the chapters out loud for the stream … Love in Covid’s Times.”
Biden’s national press secretary TJ Ducklo told Axios that the Liberal Privilege was “the latest in a series of desperate and pathetic attempts to distract himself from the president’s clumsy story about the coronavirus response.”
“Is there anything more to the brand than Donald Trump Jr trying to cash in on a book full of disgusting lies and defamation about Joe Biden?” Ducklo added.
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